Bab El Oued City (1994)
Gênero : Drama, Comédia
Runtime : 1H 33M
Director : Merzak Allouache
Sinopse
Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...
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